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Founded in 1965, the University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University.

In 2012, University Press of Colorado merged with Utah State University Press, which was established in 1972. USU Press titles are managed as an active imprint of University Press of Colorado, and they maintain offices in both Louisville, Colorado, and Logan, Utah.

The University Press of Colorado, including the Utah State University Press imprint, publishes forty to forty-five new titles each year, with the goal of facilitating communication among scholars and providing the peoples of the state and region with a fair assessment of their histories, cultures, and resources.

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Daughters of Harriet

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Profiting from the Peak

Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs

University Press of Colorado

In Profiting from the Peak, geographer John Harner surveys the events and socioeconomic conditions that formed the city, analyzing the built landscape to offer insight into the origins of its urban forms and spatial layout, focusing particularly on historic downtown architecture and public spaces.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Teotihuacan and Early Classic Mesoamerica

Multiscalar Perspectives on Power, Identity, and Interregional Relations

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867-1869

Second Edition

University Press of Colorado

During the morning hours of September 17, 1868, on a sandbar in the middle of the Republican River in eastern Colorado, a large group of Cheyenne Dog Men, Arapaho, and Sioux attacked about fifty civilian scouts under the command of Major George A. Forsyth.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Adapting to the Land

A History of Agriculture in Colorado

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Study of the Raft

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Night and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica

University Press of Colorado

Night and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica is the first volume to explicitly incorporate how nocturnal aspects of the natural world were imbued with deep cultural meanings and expressed by different peoples from various time periods in Mexico and Central America.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa

Anthropology, Literature, and History

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Myths of the Popol Vuh in Cosmology, Art, and Ritual

University Press of Colorado

This volume offers an integrated and comparative approach to the Popol Vuh, analyzing its myths to elucidate the ancient Maya past while using multiple lines of evidence to shed light on the text.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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